Page 57 - British Post Office Notices 1666 to 1799

1700-1709

•• 0 2 0 2 NEWS [June 8-11, 1702]

The Pacquet-Boats which were formerly employed from Fa/mouth to Cornnna, are ordered to go for the future
between Fa/mouth and Lisbon.

•• 0 2 0 3 NEWS [June 18-22, 1702]

These are to give Notice, That on Tuesday next, being the 23d Instant, the Mail for Portugal will be sent from the
General Post Office, and continue so to do for the future every 14 days as formerly.

-- 0 2 0 4 NEWS [June 18-22, 1702]
The Post will go every day during the Summer Quarter to Tunbridge, from whence the Letters will be conveyed to the
Wells as formerly.

•• 0 2 0 5 NEWS [August 27-31, 1702]

These are to give Notice, That during Her Majesty's Residence at the Bath, the Post will go and come between
London and the Bath every day in the week.

-· 0 2 0 6 NEWS [November 5-7, 1702]
These are to give Notice, That an Advice-Boat will sail on the 16th of this Month, Wind and Weather permitting, for
Barbadoes, Antegoa, Montserat, Nevis, St. Christophers, and Jamaica; and that all Persons who have any Letters for the said
Islands, may send them to the General Post-Office in Lombard-street, London, on or before the 14th Instant, where Care
will be taken they be put up in the several Bags for the respective Islands, and sent by the said Vessel.

-- 0 3 0 1 NEWS [January 11-14, 1703] {Julian Calendar: January 11-14, 1702}

Whereas Her Majesty, for the Encouragement of Trade and Commerce, bath thought fit to appoint Boats to convey
Letters and Pacquets between England and the Islands of Barbadoes, Antego, Montserat, Nevis, St. Christophers, and
Jamaica, in America; This is to give Notice, That a Mail for the above-mentioned Islands will go from the General Post-
Office in London on Saturday the 23d Instant, and the next Mail will go from the said Office on Thursday the 25th of
Febntary next, and thenceforward on the last Thursday in every Month; And Her Majesty, pursuant to the Statute made in
the Twelfth Year of King Charles the Second, for Establishing a Post-Office, bath Directed and Empowered the Postmaster
General of England to take for the Port of all Letters and Pacquets that shall be convey'd by the said Boats, between
London and any of the abovementioned Islands, the Rates as follows: For every Letters not exceeding one Sheet of Paper
9d. For every Letter not exceeding two Sheets of Paper ls. 6d. For every Pacquet weighing an Ounce 2s. &i. and so in
Proportion.

•• 0 3 0 2 NEWS [June 14-17, 1703]

These are to give notice, that whereas on the 7th Instant the Mail of Letters, containing the Bags of Sheffield,
Chesterfield, and Mansfield, coming up to London, was lost or destroy'd betwixt Mansfield and Nottingham; the Post-Boy
who rid with the same not being yet found or heard of; if any Person, having found the said Mail, will deliver it to the next
Deputy Post-Master, or discover the Post-Boy, (so as he may be secured) he shall have a Reward of Five Pounds, to be paid
by the Post-Master of Nottingham.

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